Human Rights Education

Recognising the potential of Human Rights Education the Partnership has a specific objective of promoting European citizenship, human rights education and respect for diversity. Following the publication of the Arabic translation of Compass, the manual on Human Rights Education with young people, the Partnership has launched a series of regional training courses in HRE in the Arabic-speaking region. The purpose of these courses is to support the emergence of networks of trainers and multipliers in the Arabic-speaking region and to develop the capacity of youth organisations to introduce Human Rights Education in their work. Most of the activities organised within this Partnership agreement are implemented in cooperation with local partners.

"MOSAIC Training Seminar for Trainers on Religion"
Antalya, Turkey, 3-8 November 2009

This training seminar based on MOSAIC, T-Kit on Euro-Mediterranean youth work, was the second such meeting for trainers working in a Euro-Mediterranean youth context. It brought together participants who were previously involved in the Euro-Mediterranean youth work with the Partnership between the Council of Europe and the European Commission in the field of youth, Council of Europe, and the Salto Euromed Resource Centre, including former TATEM and TOTEM participants.

Presentation  Programme    List of participants 

"Euro-Mediterranean Training Course for Human Rights Education with Young People"
Debbiye, Lebanon, 21-29 June 2009

This course aimed to develop the competence of Arabic-speaking trainers and multipliers in working with human rights education at national and regional level and to enable them to act for human rights education with young people using the Arabic version of Compass (Ittijahat).

Presentation of the course: (EN - AR)                List of participants

MOSAIC Training Seminar for Trainers “Gender Equality in Training for Euro- Mediterranean Youth Work” 
Antalya, Turkey, 3-6 December 2008 

The seminar was organised in the follow-up to the training activities for trainers in Euro-Mediterranean youth activities of the Partnership and of the publication of the Training Kit on Euro-Mediterranean youth work - MOSAIC. It was held in cooperation with the Salto Euro-med resource centre and the Turkish National agency of the Youth in Action programme, aiming - among others - at getting familiar with the MOSAIC and exploring its contents and activities, in particular in relation to the theme of gender equality, as well as deepening participants’ competence in addressing gender equality in the Euro-Mediterranean youth context .

Presentation and programme         List of participants

Training Course for multipliers active in human rights education and conflict resolution in the Euro-Mediterranean cooperation context “Conflict Resolution and Human Rights Education for Enhancing Intercultural Dialogue with Young People”,organised in co-operation with the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures 
European Youth Centre Budapest, 19-26 October 2008

Presentation of the course: (EN - FR)    Programme (EN - FR)   List of participants

Regional training courses for trainers in Human Rights Education with young people using Compass in Arabic

• Evaluation and follow-up meeting of the sub-regional training courses for trainers in human rights education in Arabic 
  Swedish Institute in Alexandria, Egypt, 29-31 October 2007

Presentation and programme                List of participants  
Report of the meeting including the Evaluation and impact study of the courses by Ali Chahine, consultant 

• «Maghreb-Europe» training course for trainers in Human Rights Educationwith young people
   Fès, Maroc, 13 - 22 May 2007, in co-operation with the Centre de documentation d’information et de formation en droits de l’homme (Morocco), and l’Association initiatives pour la protection des droits des femmes (Morocco) 

Presentation (FR - AR)    Programme (FR - AR)   List of participants

 Course documentation (in French) 

• Arab-Euro training course for trainers in Human Rights Education with young people
  Alexandria, Egypt, 1-9 April 2006, in cooperation with the Swedish Institute in Alexandria 

Presentation (EN - AR)   Programme (EN - AR)    List of participants

• Regional Training Course for trainers in Human Rights Education for the Middle East region
  Amman, Jordan, 28 March - 4 April 2006, in cooperation with the National Council for Human Rights and Princess Basma Youth Resource Centre 

Presentation (EN - AR)   Programme (AR)    List of participants

Workshop "Training Trainers in Human Rights Education using Compass in Arabic"
European Youth Centre, Budapest, 3-13 December 2005

This workshop was aimed at training 15 Arabic-speaking trainers in using the Arabic version of Compass, the manual on Human Rights Education with young people. Some of the trainers were consequently involved in the Arabic regional training courses that took place in Jordan and Egypt in 2006, in Morocco in 2007, and in Lebanon in 2009.

Presentation     Programme        List of participants  

This seminar addressed thematic issues related to the Euro-Med programme, which are equally relevant to the culture of human rights, namely women's rights, minority rights and approaches for citizenship and participation of young people. As a practical side to the course, the participants had to identify guidelines for applying those principles in youth exchanges and other Euro-Med projects.

Seminar presentation: (EN - AR)        Programme       List of Participants    Conclusions by the participants 

Seminar report by Ingrid Ramberg - in English and Arabic

Other interesing documents on Human Rights Education published by the partnership stakeholders

• Encompassing human rights education with young people

In 2000, the Directorate of Youth and Sport of the Council of Europe launched a Human Rights Education Youth Programme with the aim of "bringing human rights education into the mainstream of youth work and youth policy". The programme has built on the potential of youth work and non-formal learning to strengthen human rights, while human rights education has contributed to anchoring youth work and non-formal education within the human rights ethical, political and normative framework of the Council of Europe. This publication is a review of the main activities and achievements of this programme.